Welcome back to the humble County Board of Supervisors. Meeting
March twelfth afternoon session County Council Chief do we have
a report out of procession. Thank you chair Let's see.
As to item one that was the board meeting with your labor negotiator. Regarding the
county employees. There is no action to report or that item I three the
board met with council recording humble Coalition for property rights Inc versus
the Cannie. On that existing litigation there's no action to report out on that
chair if you would please adjourn as that is the Board of Supervisors and reconvene
as the governing board for the humble County public authority for in home
supportive services I can now to you to. We will now adjourn is the Board of
Supervisors and reconvene as the county public authority for in home supportive
services thank you and on that item to the governing board for the humble County
public authority. Voted unanimously today to provide direction to its labor
negotiators that is consistent with the mediators settlement agreement and with
today's direction the parties have reached
a tentative agreement which is subject to ratification by the union and final
approval by the board in open session and then approval by the state of California
and that completes my report and if you were to journey from the public authority
governing board back to the Board of Supervisors We will adjourn
a summer camp of authority from the port of services and reconvene as the
supervisors. Thank you for that report and that moves us on to our public
appearances and this part of our agenda is reserved for items that are not on our
agenda we have the three minute timer and I've got
a sign up lists or first speakers Sheen Brinton.
Thank you chair Sunbird going to stay members of the board I'm Shane Brenton
community outreach liaison for the California United home care workers as usual I
want to be clear that I'm here representing the union I'm not here in my capacity
as an elected official for the city of Arcadia today I want to thank you but even
more than that I want to congratulate you and your approval this tentative
agreement is an important step in what we hope will become and I'm going effort to
improve the lives of I.H.S.
Caregivers and recipients. This tentative agreement modest as it may be does begin
to address the unacceptably low wages and retention rates it has the potential to
improve the lives of home care workers and the recipients So once again
congratulations and thank you we also want to extend
a huge thank you to all of the I.H.S.
US workers our members the community allies who have been involved with the
struggle over the last few years and who will continue to be involved in the
struggle to improve home care in the months and years to come while we are
certainly pleased with this progress we do know that the public authority had the
ability to do more and we don't want that to be forgotten in all of this if it some
point over the next few months you feel morally compelled to take another step
forward our door will be open and of course we will continue to do our utmost to
advocate for the well being of our members their families and of the recipients who
depend on I Services thank you again. Thank you next is kept you so below.
Good afternoon board my name is Kathy Sibylla I am and I says home care provider
I'm on the bargaining team for California home care workers union I live in
District four in Eureka and I vote Well here we are again today standing in front
of you today is a little different though today is
a little bittersweet I think some of us are here today for different reasons I'm
here today to say thank you to
a few people thank you to the home care providers that for every week for more than
a year have rallied here for Justice thank you to the recipients for allowing those
providers to be here thank you to the overwhelming support of the people of this
county thank you to the Central Labor Council for supporting us thank you to the
Nurses Union thank you to the teachers union. Thank you to the postal workers
thank you to ask me thank you to SCI you and thank you to all the other unions that
stood by our side for this fight for justice I bet you're ready to hear saying
thank you to you the Board of Supervisors Well I'm not quite ready to say that yet
not quite ready to say thank you for giving us the crumbs instead of the whole
cracker Don't get me wrong I'm grateful that you finally heard our plea but c'mon
the crimes you did have the ability to pay us more yes the.
Goddess
a contract and got the union and all I can say is watch out for the next three
years when we get to come back to the table some of you may still be here but some
of you may not but we'll be back for full justice when we get our full
justice then you'll get my thanks. I don't and don't think that we're going away
we will be here in the community serving the community and doing what we do best
caring for the elderly and the disabled here in humble County we will stand up for
justice when we are called upon and please humble county call upon us for support
because we'll be there for you. We know we made
a little difference here in humble County the overwhelming support from the public
has been amazing and much appreciated
a couple of months ago I talked about perseverance how perseverance will help you
win the race for justice so call upon us for support because perseverance does pay
off. If you're wanting to get in touch with us here in Eureka Our address
is three fourteen L.
Street in Eureka our phone number is seven
o seven four zero seven zero five four to. The next
is John. C.
. John I excuse me. I'm John in
minimally you know care provider I have been since ninety eight and since two
thousand I've been in the struggle to try to get
a contract for you know care workers and I'm
a little bit in dissent with the union of there are many member because I'm hearing
from my community that it's too little and too late especially since we got rid of
the health care. Part of the contract and it's only fifty cents and we're going to
be pain due and I don't have an answer to them so.
I guess having a contract is
a position that we can work towards I'm glad for the new member of
the board of supervisors because I think without that new member we were wouldn't
be here where we are today and perhaps just try to think positive and look
forward and thank you. Next is Margaret Lewis.
Hi I'm Margaret Listen I live in Garberville I'm a home care provider through H.S.
This and I vote to. I would like to thank you because I
know that this has been
a long hard decision for all of you to make and I appreciate that I do.
I would also like to thank the like Shane In fact I could just repeat what he said
because he said it so well for many of us. I wish that it had
been more like all of us I wish that it had been what we asked. Maybe
we can continue in the future maybe we have
a springboard to jump from now that we have
a base of improved wages and union contract you know
maybe we'll see but I do appreciate the hard work that you put in on this and I
just want to say thank you. Thank you next is Vivian dimmest.
Hello my name insipient Aniston I am and I just as
a provider I live in District four and I do vote as to the people I care for.
Someone said that this was
a bridge between the workers and the board supervisors but what first flashed in my
mind was a commando bridge you've been on
a commando bridge it shakes you have to move sideways and you're on
a cable so you're scooting very slowly so I think more and more of
a that's more of where we're at where we're not on that sturdy bridge yet but I do
appreciate all the hard work that everybody has done and I do hope this is
a beginning and I hope there'll be
a moral turn as Shane said and things will will be more.
More supportive to. Help get people out of their level of poverty thank you very
much Q The next is Patrick cross.
Good morning everyone I mean I'm sorry Good afternoon I just want to say thank you
for making the decision making for the increase of the wage for income support
services but I just I just want to say that I will continue to rally and fight
against oppression because this is just still not not enough
just not enough justice right now so I'm going to continue to rally for the next
negotiation that rule arrive in the near in the future I'm going to continue to
fight and support for I exist and try to reverse oppression and make it
much more. Self empowering and more
a group empowering as for the modern micro level and for the macro level for
everyone in humble county have
a good day you next to send the money. Afternoon
care provider I reside in Fortuna I've been coming here for over
a year I'm pleased to hear that some headway is being made I want to thank you for
that I know it's not easy working together and politics to me not anything I'd
ever really want to continue being into so however I have and it goes to show that
the lobbying in advocacy does pay off and for those care providers and recipients
have been
a part of this I do appreciate that it takes us coming together and making
a difference and I like to say to those who providers who can't be involved in
those providers who can but just have sat back and just watched it it's important
to keep advocating for your own rights and I see in the future.
Nothing clearly now I just say just keep advocating and support each other for
other anything that you need to see change in this county Thank you. Thank you
next Holly Klingle. Accidental
Piers. Good afternoon
supervisors I don't big dogs little dogs and the difference between
a little dog big dog is a little dog you think you stuck to
a big dog you know you step. Now when I was in India I got off the
boat. Really I go I spent twenty four hours on this boat Christmas Christmas Eve to
Christmas Day I read in Goa and the first thing I found was
a flush toilet in this place first thing I did was I flushed that torch and to my
surprise a plumber me had to look over the wall I'm
a curious kind of person I am because the squealing that was going over there was
incredible and I've been a vegetarian for years and I was
a vegetarian then there was pigs in that yard and they're fighting over what was
being flushed over now everything that's flush everything you track rise somewhere
today or yesterday was enters or verse or through ish Shima we are so lucky to have
a nuclear power plant here but let me explain what happened on the twenty ninth
they had a meeting over there in the well front of
a building and they explained my brother's worked on sound and offering my brother
one time gave me three checks a cash you could've bought
a car would when I was working living down there sign an offer is not working right
now why because the heat exchanger is cracked the same thing that hoping over here
because steam generator OK this is what happened they put these rods down
the rods half the pellets inside there are metal pellets and they drop down inside
in there that banned them all together with bands like their own bands here well
they had no rust abatement what happened was that he going through here cause hot
spots in the pencil like I have here and it broke now the does here is Adams
we're not talking about how simple this is it's carbon we're talking about atoms.
This contaminated the whole nuclear vessel that was generating the steam with the
huge exchanger broken it allowed this Pora course to get to the steam generator so
I contaminated it this is what you don't want anywhere anywhere at that meeting
they discussed how at the bottom of the pile they had to use energy right they
found over two dozen of these crack pieces every want to release petroleum and
other nuclear Patel that's been generated in that that's all into the water where
the water go I ask everyone here I ask him
a question here where's the nuclear vessel when you go by seven zero for in San
Diego you see it the nuclear vassal weapon the nuclear rods in here. Where is it.
The same body know it's buried in the ground out there with contaminated fully
contaminated with petroleum and they have dumped the water into the bay they don't
that steam into the air the people of humble county should own P.G. And E.
Q. OK And that is the final speaker on
the lists. But I know we have more. We do
have more cancer we're asking from the lake I want to give you an unequivocal thank
you for what you did for the workers here. And I know they have
a lot of stress and they've been through
a lot of pressure here but from the public the fact that you get put this on the
agenda prior to the end of the year the fact that this has been going on as this
one gentleman mention for since two thousand or thereabouts and all the other board
the supervisors had
a chance to deal with this but it seems like about the youngest board of
supervisors that you ever had or the people it took to get it done so I wish to
thank you for that I think the public should understand that. That. That could
happen anywhere along the line you know if you people to do this I think it is
a feather in your caps and now I would ask probably the direction I'd like to see
go was just do everything we can to get this turned over to the state and make all
our effort focused on that because that's where these people may get their I don't
know of the state may give them twelve dollars an hour who knows but if we can
really really work on that now that we've gotten this far I think that's in
everybody's best interest that being said I have some really negative things here.
I'm going to take my negative things and I'm going to want to three week vacation
and hopefully they'll just go away while I'm gone so anyway just just on that last
that I just don't thank you very much again and I think the community does
appreciate and I think that
a lot of people when they sit back you know just the move you make there's only so
much honey in that honey pot and you've given out some of it and I think it was
well deserved and and here again very much by. Thank you have
a safe location. And tonight because this talk English start to thank all
you guys for everything and it's
a start I've already ended two jobs this morning and got my third one now waiting
in the car so I have to go out as wanted to say thank you again by.
His or in he had our speakers. OK No
thank you. Oh I'm sorry
a style. I would like to say thank you to everybody for sank you know us.
These things are very difficult to move along and I just want you to know that.
Everybody really cares I just want you to know that and I know we'll all be able to
see
a bit more after you've taken your vote and you bring it back to us and we ratify
it that it goes on to the states so thank you everybody for your appreciation for
the work that's gone into this and for all of your work.
Right. That moves us to L one which comes from our painting and
building department. Steven me.
Steve and Steve. Good afternoon supervisors. This is
continued public hearing of the humble County collective to appear before you
a number of occasions and this this hearing is we're requesting another continuance
the staff report details the reasons why we've been working on securing the
services of a C.P.A.
Firm to perform the review it's been challenging but I'm happy to report we
actually got somebody and they are actually working on the work right now as we
speak I spoke with them yesterday and we have
a target date for the report completion. Just want to make sure that the public
hearing was opened first the public hearing is now open sorry.
Having said that the report is in the process and we have
a. Commitment from the consultant to prepare it it's a it's
a team of two firms one based in Oakland and one in San Diego they're working the
details of the report I try to give you guys
a sneak preview as far as what you know what you can expect We were very happy that
they were ambitious enough to take on that that range of investigations. We will
have
a draft of the report on the eighteenth and will have enough time to we're requesting
a one month continuance so that we can present the report to you with the staff
report so you can review it in advance of the hearing we don't want to present it
to you today we could have had it here today with you but we don't think that was
the right way to go about it so that's the reason for the continuance and we expect
this to be the last hearing. Barring any discussion prolonged so I
just want to kind of break that down happy to answer any questions suppressor bass
you Mr Chairman actually one of the things that's going to say is I've been driving
through the parking lot behind the building and I've been seeing things happening
specially when the van left so I'm glad that this is moving forward as well and I
look forward to seeing it on the eighteenth. Is there anybody from the public that
would like to speak on this item. Welcome kit I won't be here on the eighteenth
but I'd like to speak in there. That they think that's of this mind. Part.
Anyway I speak very briefly if basically. I for I've kind of been paying attention
this particular thing and I've made my cautions I'm not going to reassert those
anymore but I think in in relation to this particular issue to my best knowledge
there was one time somebody said both of these parcels of the two that were very
close together owned by the same person so I research and that it was not true to
my best knowledge this particular individual landowner has not received
a notification to the victims tenants or loses property I could be wrong on that
it's kind of an interesting thing kind of the government just more seem to be going
after the people who own multiple locations and who kind of seem to be out there
possibly I don't know flaunting it
a little more or something so I guess I guess it's just
a curiosity thing of maybe if you were going to have them to continue are operating
there part of your criteria would be that. If you're such time as they received
notification from the federal government that they had
a problem with the operation there or or that the landlord it or you build that
thought in there somewhere that might be kind of
a reason for you to possibly move in
a certain direction here because then of course you would be being pushed
a little bit whereas river right now it doesn't seem to be being pushed as some of
the other ones were so thank you for your time thank you.
You know Piers after supervisors we're talking about marijuana corks right here
just so I know are on the same consciousness is. I understand why the county has
to be the way it has to be but truth be told he is
a weed and going to Polygon in the Kashmir and on the bus up the
river valley there was nothing but wild marijuana plants growing everywhere so the
only way I can conclude that you want to be so hard knows about this is you're
trying to keep the weed I don't whole county because you don't want to growing wild
here because it will take over everything so you seem to be ignoring your own laws
like regrading and helping the people who complain about the real problems in the
neighborhood and trying to issue more and more problems to the people who are
trying to do the right thing now I storage units the last Origin and i Pod I found
a piece of paper and it was from the first Canada Center and have all county the
one in Arcadia and my friends show me the courage to live there and there was my
dog or my friend's dog who died because he was in the picture too and that was in
one nine hundred ninety nine and I saw people trying to do the right thing in
helping people just get their medicine and that's
a word that's lacking over and over again. In ten years thirteen years it went
to whatever is gone to back then I used to bring pots and pots to chide tea there I
took the journal and I saw the hopefulness in the people and the change that would
bring to the people who really need the medicine and I realized their own I was
standing out from the place with
a picket sign that half of us stopping one person from getting their medicine I was
wrong because marijuana is better than the alcohol it's better than the pill pills
when I hear what's going out in the real world hey for it is insanity. Just
insanity when you talk to the real people who know what's going on in the counties
and how these programs are beneficial in helping people and you look at marijuana
it's the best thing that ever happened to our little world it is the grease that
makes all slide around without it we would all be in
a few you. Can queue.
Is there anybody else you'd like to speak of coming. To you like to speak.
To lay on hands and I'm chewing can you pull the microphone down Thank you I'm
joined Hammond and I'm from the collective and I know I wasn't quite sure what he
said about the mammal rights and I kind of one can know about that. But you know it
was
a rumor that the properties there were owned by the same person in he looked into
and they were owned by the same people. That answer your question yes OK.
That's what I want. You thing else. OK.
It's close public comment or do I keep it up and says the hearing has that word.
Well the public comment part of the hearing you can close and then the hearing
itself is closed after everything else is done to phrase about.
Can I make
a motion to accept staff recommendation. If that's allowed to be emotional thinking
. You asking a question or you make
a motion. That was. OK Any other comments from the board.
All those in favor of the CIA I post. Most curious Thank you thanks for your work
on this too and in finding somebody and I look forward to seeing you. All right now
we will close the public hearing.
Next as our afternoon discussion items first one brought to us by our county
administrator officer. Mr Smith pains Thank you Mr Chair So I'm
today I just have
a very brief. Notification about an exciting opportunity that is
a partnership that the county through our economic development team has entered
into with our local schools and the Community Alliance for family farmers and some
of our local businesses and as
a result of that exciting partnership next Tuesday the nineteenth will be talking
to Tuesday in Humboldt County schools and our local school children will have some
nice healthy organic beef for talkers and
then that will be followed up by the end of the year by some grass fed beef hot
dogs so it's
a nice thing that encourages our local businesses and healthy nutrition choices
from our local schools so. That is what I wanted to share with you
today and I'd be happy to answer questions. So.
I think we probably want to thank Clint the train and basically all of the. Grass
fed organic ranchers out there the Morris and Hugo Clapper and I think there are
some there's
a few others out there that are burning the way on this as you know agriculture is
driving the bus hopefully in this county
a lot of the time. Supervisor for now yes and I will say that
it's wonderful to know that that that business is going so well and it's kind of
interesting to note that most of the business of the local producers actually goes
out of town out of state even and so this will hopefully make people
more aware of just the superior product that we have here at home and I really like
the idea of pushing that local food I mean I hate to get gross here but I've been
reading headlines from Europe and beyond about horsemeat and then.
In these you know corporate packaged foods and here you have local food and grass
fed beef that is I claimed because of the quality of the food here so.
Great move. Supervisor Lovelace and I'll just chime in yes with
another thanks to Clint Victorien and the other ranchers but it's just
a great co-operative project tying in as noted the community alliance of family
farmers too and our own economic development staff that have you know they've
worked very hard very closely with the plant over the years to help him.
Market the grass fed beef and that's. Really
a good demonstration of how we can work together in so many combinations schools
the county ranchers farmers. And great to get the feedback from the
schoolkids on Tuesday. Night ender stand that there may be thing
feedback after Tuesday from
a couple of your fellow board members as well I think there's an effort to.
Try and take a break in and have
a couple folks attend one of the school lunches and for those of you who are not
able to. Get away next Tuesday I think we're going to try and do
a. Local Taco Tuesday here as well so.
You know I'm trying to work or calendar out to make sure that we have some time
during lunch so we're mean trees here being mindful of that we put on the morning
calendars trying to. Make it to. So as well and with that you need to
know that this is actually going out over state wide because we are the first this
is the first system to do this in the state and the other thing to be aware of and
why we're so lucky to live up here we're one of the few areas that have that grow
grass for the beef. Like no tomorrow and it allows these guys to do this and allows
us organic we just are able to do that without an added fertilizers and stuff to
our fields and things like that just because of our climate and the way they manage
their land so we are very fortunate along those lines.
Anything else. Pretty from public when I speak on this.
You know like talk us. Oh that's right you go to Mexico.
All right. You didn't need anything just.
It's very poorly informational Thank you OK. Thank you Mr Smith things that will
move us to reports on board member travel meeting attendance and supervisor or
district matters. We will start with supervisor pass.
Thank you Mr Chair as I said last week one of my events is going to be I'm reading
scholarship applications for the scholarship committee for each of the egg building
supervisor final was not able to be there that's one of the one of the best
afternoons I have I've spent since then I what you'll get your turn to but it was
absolutely amazing not only the work ethic and leadership skills that these kids
have and how long they've been involved in the programs where they're going to
school amazing grade point averages and just real hard working kids so that was
that was fun and was even better in that committee we were able to. Make sure
that everybody was. You know was able to get get something and so that was that
was really nice was very refreshing to go in and as long as there are things turned
in
a perp really. They took care of the kids. I also attended the map of the movies
meeting previously we call that the map of the stars and that's. An effort by
Cassandra hassle trying at the Film Commission we're trying to recreate
a map from the past that has the locations of the different movies that have been
shot in Humboldt County and Elmore County and make it
a big occasion there's going to be an unveiling the night before the premiere of
the After Earth movie so we're trying to make is a very big event and it's
a great group of guy Cassandra Alex Tilman momentarily any shock wind hits thrown
things that me up here. Mike Sullivan. County Jeff Palmer from Dell Marconi
and Richard Stengel are and I do have to note that all the men were not at the
meeting it was just us ladies and we got
a lot accomplished I'm not sure I'm not sure maybe it's just you know they might
not like what we accomplished while they were gone but I think it could be
a fun event we'll let you know more about that as it gets closer on Saturday
actually on Friday night I attended the plunge fundraiser for Discovery Museum
where supervisor bone was the auctioneer as happened so frequently and ended up
buying things that I didn't need but that happens at these events especially with
him and the next day was the plunge were again supervisor bone was using his
talents and He can tell you more that he he was very busy introducing all the
jumpers and I was bartending my job was to keep the jumpers warm after they jumped
in the Bay. Well you know Bloody Mary's let me rephrase that they also had
a hot day also had
a hot tub that they hop in first OK so. Yeah you know this so it happens I'll say
Center on and then of course this week looking forward to logging conference and
Jazz Festival let everyone know that that is coming up March twenty second usually
Richard's here to remind us but I think he's gone and taste of Mean Street is March
twenty first and that's always
a fun event if you haven't gone to that before I highly recommend getting to as
many restaurants as you can in a short period of time and eating on the run it's
a lot of fun everyone's out and it's
a great time so that's pretty much you know just fun meetings nothing nothing
boring at all. Did you have some walk with the dog that's what I did have something
with in your district that I did offer you the opportunity to speak on and now that
I'm missing my sheet of paper
a few months ago I mentioned the America the medical society is now having
a walk with a doc where once a month they have
a doctor led walk in different parts different communities and this Saturday
on the sixteenth the walk with the doc is going to be at Hammond trail and McKinley
Bill meeting at Hiller park and that's at eleven o'clock it's just thirty minutes
of walking start your day off get some great scenery join you know twenty or thirty
people and supervisor Sundberg I don't know if he's attending but I think you
should because it must be close but if you're able to go I'm sure that loved to
have you there. And if not. Maybe supervisor Lovelace. Can be
there anyway so you just. Sit in your schedules now so you know.
If ever I know I do actually know I'm coming Saturday April twentieth that's going
to be the headwaters Forest Reserve. So that will be an Elk River trail and then
May eleventh it'll be in fourteen so it's heads up stay healthy
her supposed to be nice this weekend so keep more. We're not doing
concessions along the route. Supervisor of. Thank you last
Wednesday I attended a. Forestry workshop put on by the U.C.
Cooperative extension at the ag center. And this is
a really really good event very technical data rich discussion of
a lot of different. Issues regarding forestry discussions about carbon credits
really interesting piece on. Conversion from. Single age management
to. Multi multiple age men missing the term.
Anyway and the data to select Well selective but also there's another term I just
you know totally Yes Just out of my brain at the moment. But just the data that was
behind it and how that would drive management and I've been to
a lot of forestry workshops over the years and. There are some folks in that
room that I haven't seen in quite
a few years at various functions like this but one of the things that was really
neat was seeing how many landowners and you know smaller private landowners and you
know dirt foresters boots on the ground kind of guys that were there it was.
Very. Again very very technical but folks that were
very interested in learning the you know cutting edge of forest management. So that
was
a good workshop Thursday had an opportunity to meet with Bill panels the new city
manager for Eureka had a great discussion with him. And then we also had
a meeting of the with supervisor Bohn we had
a meeting of the Indian gaming. Committee. The big news though was on
Saturday which was the sixteenth annual arcade eye ball and this as I mentioned
last week was
a fundraiser for the arcade Ridge trail trying to close to the last gap that we had
to raise to purchase the last link in this trail and happy to report that we were
able to make our target and raise the amount needed and
a little bit more to their old still be always be more fund raising necessary for
trail building for materials coverts signage benches all these kinds of
improvements that will need to go into it but the money that's necessary to
purchase this last link is now in hand. And I was thinking about it since
Saturday that this whole thing started back on February twenty eighth two thousand
and I remember when we got the letter about what was then
a proposed timber harvest on this property and that turned into this year's years
long process and thirteen years later we acquired not just that property we helped
raise somewhere around two hundred thousand dollars from the community for one
purchase after another six different acquisitions. And which leveraged somewhere
around four million dollars of state and federal funding to make this all happen.
Hundreds and hundreds of donors and volunteers that helped out along the way to get
to this point but just to finally have that last piece. Done at least cash in
hand for it is really just
a great feeling it's almost impossible to imagine thirteen years ago that we could
actually make this thing happen but but we did and. Should give us hope for the
general plan as that. Supervised bone.
Did I had to well see last Wednesday I had an area one agency of my first area I
want to Agency on Aging meeting on the Advisory Council Thursday again like Mark
said in the gaming commission that afternoon met with Mark and Wendy Rowan on the
first five home well first five Friday yes we had the plunge auction we had.
I actually had did an interview with Chinese T.V.
. Betty chin and what she does in this area Saturday got them see the
plunge I got to go dinner with the lead
a volunteer fire department at their annual dinner and then got to skip out of that
and go to Ferndale and auction at the annual fundraiser for Rep fest for the
Ferndale Repertory Theater which has the show opening up here in
a couple weeks as hell of next week I think Hello Dolly and they did
a little short version of love. Anyway. That's it.
And I. Got chores done on Sunday and had a bunch of other stuff but it was
a. Actually
a pretty good wake you're right not too many to see too much tough stuff I actually
Friday actually did go down with Hank salmon to look at some flooding issues down
on the Williams Creek Amber Xeni frog alley and then we went to lone lead and
looked at some drainage issues with Hank salmon and Tom Mattson it's looks like
we've got some issues. That we are addressing head on down in those areas so
hopefully with the help of public works we can get some answers forms of THANK YOU
supervisor final. Well we'll have to encourage you to sing
a little bit more that's kind of nice. So let's see starting with Wednesday the
sixth I went to the Laugh go orientation which was right here and that was very
very informative and supervisor bass was there for
a little while off and on and it was great discussion and great preparation for my
first Lefkow meeting on Wednesday the twentieth the same day I did
a tour of the Elk River Watershed with some local people there Kristi Wrigley Jesse
you know well his wife I don't know why the Regional Water Board
and I were looking at some flooding issues in that area. And Thursday I went to
see Smith Haines and Kathy Hayes clerk of the board and we went to the Fortuna
attended Fortuna Leadership Council gave
a presentation there and answered questions and it was wonderful it was
a wonderful wonderful experience I think both for all three of us and for the
people involved really good meeting. That same day I picked up the keys
for de. Fortuna Veterans Memorial Building in anticipation of
holding office hours in Fortuna regularly Thursday mornings from nine to noon and
my first day doing that would be March twenty first so from now on residents of
the valley won't have to travel to either Eureka or Garberville to have
a meeting with their supervisor you can just come down to the veterans' hall in
Fortuna and he Thursday morning between nine and noon that will push my office
hours in Garberville back to up to one o'clock so will be from one to five
in Garver beginning on the twenty first of. Of this month. Then I went down to
garble for that. Office hours and also met with Paul and Barbara Turner
Beach Road and lower Redway along with our Reeves's the Deputy Director of Public
Works we looked at possible moving of a gate there and making very
a little bit more secure and also saving the road from the impact of vehicles on
a particularly steep part that goes down to the beach and would also hopefully stop
people from breaking through the gate and going on to the beach which is of course
not allowed so that was a nice little meeting and I think it was very productive
a kind of
a public private partnership. Spoke the same day my goodness with the
optimists lunch and then had my usual Saturday afternoon I mean Thursday afternoon
. That evening I met with some residents of the Philips Phil area who are concerned
about zoning issues there and and that will be coming up obviously as we go forward
with the general plan update. On Friday. I had
a meeting with county council code enforcement and the Planning Department
regarding ongoing code enforcement issues and Shelter Cove and I think that also
was
a very productive meeting we might be able to make some headway in addressing some
of the more egregious issues there. On the same day the board met
to look over our strategic priorities list and I found out to be
a good discussion too we were all of that one and. On Saturday I attended the
Fortuna branch library dinner and books that was that's always
a wonderful community event raising funds for the Fortuna branch library was great
to see the turnout I think they did pretty well and that's my report thank you
thank you so Reza Bonior one other thing. I did want to reiterate and I know
Virginia brought up the log in conference Education Day is on Thursday and the
conference is open Thursday or Friday it's
a great family event you can it is no charge to get into the lobbying conference
it's out at Redwood acres we get it every other year I shave know some of the
equipment parked around town but they'll be about sixteen hundred kids there on
Thursday morning for education day if your kid's class doesn't go maybe it's
a good idea there's education taking place they've got
a lot of different things they've got and they actually have
a locomotive ride out there they have sawmills working they have chainsaw car burst
so it's
a great thing to take the kids too so I just want to throw that out there and I'm
sure Ryan's going to mention what takes place at Oregon State Sunday. So if I
suppress whatever. Sorry Mr I just I wanted to mention when I talked about the map
of the movies I don't think I mentioned that our very own Shankland is working on
that as well and she is she's been
a lot of did I didn't know if I said her name but she just put in so much work and
in along with Cassandra making it happen I was just saying I wanted to make sure
that I did include her name thank you.
So I was out Trinidad earlier in the week for dealing with some animal control
issues. County and the tribes do not have any agreements for animals and.
Some confusion how that happens so I stepped in and
it was. One of the first times where I've used my experience in travel say that
to explain the county side. Sometimes it's difficult to understand
why the county doesn't do certain things or why the tribes and do certain things
but when you talk about or you've been on both sides you can understand there's
a lot of other issues it's not just because one side doesn't want to do something
it's because. You can't sometimes. Figured a lot of that out they had
a. Conference with Red Deer consulting they are the new
consulting firm. Through the North Coast integrated regional water management plan
and they got hired on to do. Tribal representation and trying to get more
participation from tribes into the technical committee and also help
tribes with submitting applications and and getting them funded through the fifty
and all that. So they just came on their working under twenty five thousand dollars
gram right now and it's and then they're going to ramp up. To
the larger granite camera which Durham how much that total ground was going to. I
did talk shop last week met with
a nurse and Craig Compton to go over their plans some conservation
easements. One of them is going to there actually and come do
a presentation next Tuesday one thirty have belief and they are going to talk about
one of them that's up by Redwood creek over by Oric that's connected to the
national park up there and they are. The
conservation easement that they're talking about it there would they would still be
a log it just wouldn't have any development rights and then there's another one and
I'm sure you're aware of strawberry rock and where there are or people
walk up
a trail and then they go to Strawberry rock they have one of their logging units
that they are talking about protecting and then the trailer goes all the way up to
the rock and then around the rock. So that was. Good news it's.
It was just the just the track the logging track that they had was twenty seven
acres and I think they think it's going to be right around fifty acres for the
whole thing yeah. So we can ask those questions next Tuesday when when they come
and do their presentation. And then. Sunday we mean
Kim and Sophie drove up to Ferndale and did the. Kids from her
class there and
a good time it was fun. And then we stopped inside Jimmy and Jackie on the way home
and Sophia and seemed Jimmy for
a while and. It's good to reunite reunite those two.
OK That's all I have is. Forgive me.
Sunday in or at the community center one P.M.
Or corned beef and cabbage for the Chamber of Commerce dinner and it's always
a good time to get
a really good auctioneer. It's
a really yes it's one of my favorite ones and it's really fun to and they have
really good food because they're invited. You can drive you there. So that's all I
have and if anyone else has anything. Oh.
OK So is there anybody from the public that would like to comment on our reports.
Can you come up to the microphone. I'm sorry and get the microphone
I'd like to get. Their ability at public restrooms in Garberville and in
all of our towns where there's more than five more than fifty people but somebody
has to use the bathroom so when we get
a bunch of people we need to really look toward that and also about I'd like to
speak
a little bit about our transient population explosion in Garberville and then we
are willing to do
a no tolerance campaign there we've pretty much had it you know and I live in my
home and Garberville So I'm
a let you do your business guy think I'm late. And I leave the papers with you and
thank you very much thank you I still think. That as
a point of information carry just so you know if any time you have input if you can
be here by one thirty in the afternoon that will really but what we heard during
your thank you. Thank you thank you for bringing us written materials to read it
that really helps. And
we are going to meeting in the memory of someone I will pass it over to supervisor
fellow and actually this is also
a supervisor Lovelace both of us put this to the attention of the clerk of the
board we are deepest sympathy during the meeting today in honor of
Kerry Hamburg people might recognize that name Kerry was the wife of
Mendocino County Supervisor Dan have also former congressman and have or get this
district Kerry had been married to Dan for forty years and died this past
Tuesday surrounded by her family and she was at
a talented pianist but she always said it was family that was most important to her
especially her four children and her six grandchildren and she was as was
reported the perfect companion for her political husband went to Washington D.C.
With him and and then later on when they were doing political work in South Africa
accompanied him there. And I read
a report by any Esposito of formerly of Casey by X.
Who described
a moment in that visit I'd like to say it one anecdote from South Africa is very
descriptive of Kerry's compassionate personality the hamburger hamburgers were
bystanders on a street per there was
a fatal shooting and Kerry cradled the dying stranger in her arms until he expired
she was
a very very kind and giving person. Her husband and. Obviously
. Very hurt by this and I definitely express extend my
sympathies to Dan. She was graceful and as in life and asked that people not send
flowers but instead pay it forward by doing
a kindness for others and there will be
a memorial for Kerry sometime in the spring. Thank you yes with that
we will adjourn meeting in the memory of Kerry hampered.